Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd9d5c9f8abdd10f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.8 KB Created: 2020-08-22 22:48:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 92bbfcd77cd230b18ed20abd05dc6290 SHA-1: fb6ad0edaf15052962380b75a2c1db961b8f5861 SHA-256: dd9d5c9f8abdd10f245a63711f614416aee957fc2de81ece2e83e83e651194f5
222 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=storyboard+template+for+web+pages', which is a critical finding. Additionally, it features a link farm of 15 external PDF links, predominantly hosted on cdn.shopify.com. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to 'Storyboard template for web pages' and includes the malicious URL. The presence of a 'Visual download / call-to-action button lure' and a 'Callback phishing phone lure' further supports a scam-based attack pattern, likely aiming to trick users into downloading a payload or initiating a fraudulent callback.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=storyboard+template+for+web+pages In PDF document text
    • http://files.tomboy-pretty.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814169/xutefomipukevovokib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wingchess.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453484/1a6d89221964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mexazakem.jetbossphotos.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482826/2457833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vepasek.plantbacteriology.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968917/3b538eb86a49625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5274/4347/files/64981263407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7718/0328/files/2084643212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0505/0021/files/85230333119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1231/7603/files/reading_comprehension_worksheet_for_grade_7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8155/5350/files/nogul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5492/3925/files/78126393507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5006/6339/files/bakery_business_plan_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7011/2423/files/61758324996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0100/4707/files/general_ledger_accounts_examples.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7790/1214/files/czasy_teraniejsze_jzyk_angielski.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8036/7780/files/67194711907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000060b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60B9 5800 bytes
SHA-256: b7d39c8dd7ee5f0954f5e9d71bcebfec63617e62181118ef0be410865d5fc9dc
font_01_sfnt_off0000746d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x746D 9964 bytes
SHA-256: 121b8e86ef5c021767b8df5442b00bb838c6939c3075c5b8ab415544edd1fb45